Council sells land for new Dundalk cinema
DUNDALK Town Council has agreed to sell over an acre of land at Marshes Upper, Inner Relief Road, to Finnabair Estates.
The company intends to built a state-of-the-art cinema complex at the inner relief road.
It will have ten digital cinema screens and will be operated by the Movies @ group.
The cinema complex will cost n12m to build at the Dundalk Retail Park in the Finnabair Estates.
Movies @ Dundalk Ltd will have 1,800 seats, ten screens and will be a haven for film fans. Along with this, the complex will offer a ticketless purchasing system and it will be fully digital, making Dundalk one of the first towns in Ireland to avail of this technology.
Hugh Quinn, Property Manager for Finnabair Estates, said they were delighted to bring Dundalk into the digital age and to contribute to the roll-out of digital cinema throughout Ireland.
He said it will greatly enhance the town's fantastic leisure and retail offering as the only film venue in the region to offer a 100 per cent digital format.
It is expected that up to 200 jobs will be created during construction, with a further 30 new jobs on offer when the cinema opens and the company has indicated an intention to allocate jobs, where at all possible, to local people within the town.
The land that the council has agreed to sell will be used to develop a car park.
The land will be transferred on condition that the development is completed.
Cllr Martin Bellew said it was important that the council shows it is open for business and he was delighted to see the sale approved.
Cllr Eamon O'Boyle also welcomed the sale.
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